Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada

by Peter Ward

Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late-18th century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage. This work argues that freedom in 19th-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behaviour of young couples both before and after marriage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511040
• ISBN13: 9780773511040
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.